Los Alamos National Laboratory

The contractor managing the nuclear weapons laboratory at Los Alamos, N.M., was slapped with a $57-million reduction in its fees for 2014, largely due to a costly nuclear waste accident last year. The contractor, Los Alamos National Security, saw its fee reduced 90% because of the accident, in which a 55-gallon drum packaged with plutonium waste from bomb production erupted after being placed in a 2,150-foot underground dump in the eastern New Mexico desert. The Department of Energy determined that the contractor had a "first-degree performance failure" and cut its fee to $6.25 million — a pittance compared with the $63.4 million that the contractor could have earned if...

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